Podcasting from Music City

When Chris McIntyre first learned about podcasting in October, he set out to explore this brave new territory of do-it-yourself Internet radio.

But his quest left him frustrated at the scant amount of details about the hundreds of homespun digital-audio shows that are springing up around the country.

So he decided to start his own Web-based podcast directory and bought a domain name for podcastalley.com. When he and his wife Amy moved from Chicago to Bellevue at the end of October, he made good use of the 10-hour car ride.